Symbolism

thumb|Vanitas (Latin for vanity) by Léon Bazille Perrault, 1886

famous person or fictional character widely regarded to be very sexually attractive

thumb|250px|Bagua diagram explanation from Zhao Huiqian's , 1370s The bagua () is a set of symbols from China intended to illustrate the nature of reality as comprising mutually opposing forces reinforcing one another. Bagua is a group of trigrams—composed of three lines, each either "broken" or "unbroken", which represent yin and yang, respectively. Each line having two possible states allows for a total of 23 = 8 trigrams, whose early enumeration and characterization in China has had an effect on the history of Chinese philosophy and cosmology.

national and cultural symbol

thumb|250px|Fish-shaped door handle from Germany, an example of a zoomorphic artwork In the context of art, zoomorphism describes art that imagines humans as non-human animals. It can also be defined as art that portrays one species of animal like another species of animal or art that uses animals as a visual motif, sometimes referred to as "animal style". Depicting deities in animal form (theriomorphism) is an example of zoomorphism in a religious context. The word zoomorphism derives from and .

mythological symbol

the use of color for symbolic purposes

study in linguistics of resemblances between sounds and meanings

Religious symbols in Buddhism

figure composed of six stacked horizontal broken or unbroken lines, used in Chinese divination

anti-semitic symbol

representations of concepts in Judaism and the Jewish people

Cognitive science issue

distinctive symbol required to be worn by a specific group or an individual for the purpose of public humiliation, ostracism or persecution

symbol

1964 book by Carl Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Joseph L. Henderson, Aniela Jafféov, and Jolande Jacobi

characteristic feature of a figure in the visual arts, often an object attached to or held by the figure portrayed

fictional symbol with different meanings

term

symbological concepts pertaining to doves since the Mezopotamian age, dove used as symbol of a god, love, peace or even war

long lock of hair, ofter braided, resting over the left shoulder

German encyclopedia of folklore

symbol in various mythologies and religions

painting by Fernand Khnopff

symbolic meanings assigned to plants by various cultures, individuals, institutions, folk cultures and traditions